ST. PETERSBURG, December 12. /TASS/. St. Petersburg courts received bomb threat reports on Thursday morning, the city courts’ press service told journalists.
- Bomb threats pour into about 60 institutions and public places around Moscow
- FSB Academy and Vnukovo Airport receive bomb threats
- Bomb threats pour into hospitals and schools throughout St. Petersburg
- Bomb threats to Moscow’s renowned cathedral, major shopping mall exposed as hoaxes
- St. Petersburg courts undergo evacuations due to renewed bomb threats
- More anonymous bomb threats pour into Moscow courts
- Russia’s Supreme Court evacuated after bomb threat
- Moscow’s renowned landmark cathedral receives bomb threat
- Bomb threats continue to pour into Moscow schools, over 10,000 evacuated
- New bomb threats clear out eight Moscow courts, on-site inspection underway
- Eight district courts in Moscow evacuated over bomb threats on Tuesday, says source
- At least 30 malls and 35 hospitals of St. Petersburg receive bomb threats — source
- District courts in Moscow, St. Petersburg evacuated over bomb threats
- St. Petersburg courts hit with wave of bomb threat calls
- Five Moscow courts get bomb threat calls
"The Petrodvortsovy, Sestroretsky, Kuibyshevsky and Smolninsky Courts are being evacuated," the report says. In addition, the Oktyabrsky and Primorsky District Courts of St. Petersburg are being cleared out. An anonymous letter to the Primorsky Court also cautions about bombs having been planted at 22 subway stations, and a letter to the Smolninsky Court stated that bombs were planted at 23 more subway stations.
St. Petersburg’s district and military courts started receiving bomb threat letters two weeks ago. The perpetrators demanded that 120 million rubles ($1.8 mln) be transferred in bitcoins to a digital wallet. These bomb threats have been sent to shopping malls and schools. All of them have turned out to be false alarms.